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Robert Lee Denis, 34, recently returned from his trip to Bronx Supreme Court back to Eastern Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison located in Napanoch, New York.

After Downstate Correctional Facility closed in 2022, the massive job of holding and transporting hundreds of incarcerated people to prisons across the state was crammed into a single roach-and-rat-infested cell block in Green Haven, a maximum-security prison located in a rural town called Stormville.

On a Saturday in mid-March, Trump’s immigration officials sent three planeloads of detainees from Texas to the maximum-security prison in El Salvador before a federal judge in Washington could intervene.

The governor has been a critic of the Trump administration’s immigration policy, including condemning the deportation of Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador last month without due process.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has sent a letter requesting that the Trump administration bring Andry José Hernández Romero, who was deported to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador last month, to the U.S. for an immigration judge to hear his case.